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This is a book collecting six of Tanizaki's non-fiction essays, starting off with the famous title essay 陰翳礼讃, which has been translated into English as "In Praise of Shadows".
Tanizaki's prose style is pretty difficult for a language learner, both in his vocabulary choices and in orthographical choices like use of kanji for "grammar" words that are more usually written in kana in more modern texts. However I felt it was rich enough to reward taking it at a slow pace, re-reading tricky sentences and thinking about the points the author was making.
Note that if you are searching for this on Aozora you will find the title essay but not the others collected in this book. In particular you will miss the excellent 厠のいろいろ where Tanizaki discusses toilets through the ages and reveals his best Japanese loo experience...